Rhiannon Held / R. Z. Held

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  • Free Space Opera Erotica Short Story

    You should download the erotic short story set in my space opera universe because it is super sexy and also FREE the July 4th holiday weekend: a Q&A post! Q: Erotic? Like…explicit? A: You know how some media “contains explicit content”? Well, this is a short story, so once you take out the explicit content,…

  • Fair Exchange available now

    The latest novella in my space opera series, FAIR EXCHANGE, is now available in ebook! On June 23, it will join the first two novellas on Kindle Unlimited. Even if you haven’t read the first two novellas in the series, FAIR EXCHANGE is a good one to jump in on, as it follows a new…

  • Crossover Story

    So, for fun (we all need more of that right now), I wrote a silly story that’s a crossover between all of my D&D adventuring party and the space opera world of the Amsterdam Institute Series. It all worked surprisingly well! So if you’re familiar with the Dungeon Scrawlers stream and not my books (or…

  • Dirty Burnout available now

    The second novella in my space opera series, DIRTY BURNOUT, is available now in ebook! Kindle Unlimited will be available May 19. Genevieve, who you met in CLEAN INSTALL, found a purpose and the illusion of safety for a while, but now to save herself and her friends she must make a terrible choice. Genevieve…

  • Clean Install Available Now

    That’s right, my fun, fast space opera novella, CLEAN INSTALL is available in all formats of ebook now! Kindle Unlimited goes live on April 21 (and the epub version will no longer be available at that point). A print compilation edition with the other novellas in the series is planned for the end of the…

  • Two Novellas and a Short Story

    If you’re looking for reading material in these crazy times, I have three new works, across several genres, I want to let you guys know about! First, Book 1 in my new space opera series, CLEAN INSTALL, is available for preorder now, and will be coming out on April 7. To serve both my epub…

  • D&D and Space Opera

    Wondering what’s in store for my creative endeavors this year? Wonder no more! I’m currently working on two very exciting projects: First, I’ve joined a group of other D&D-loving authors to play on a Twitch stream! As authors, we focus especially on character arc and development (here’s the episode where my emotionally repressed half-elf sorcerer…

  • 2019 Awards Eligibility Post

    My awards eligibility post this year is short and sweet. (But watch this space in 2020–it’s filling up with lots of cool things I’ll have coming out!) I have one story out under my R. Z. Held pen name, in the “short story” category: Swimming Apart, at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It’s a story about friendship,…

  • Silver Book 5 Audiobook Out Now!

    The wait is over! Those of you who have been following the Silver series on audiobook can now finish the series with Book 5: Death-Touched. I can’t wait to get a chance to listen to it myself!

  • A Quiet 2019: Where to find my work

    I’ve been looking ahead to the coming year, and with one novel at the discovery draft stage (a space opera) and one at the final revision stage (a weird western) as well as numerous short stories and novellas at all stages of development… I think it’s a year to focus on getting words down rather…

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